Michael D. Amitin

Michael D Amitin – National Beat Poetry Festival 2020 – Watch Here

Poet, storyteller, musician, Michael D. Amitin travelled the roads of the American West from California- east through the smoky burgs and train depot diners of Western Colorado, crisscrossing the highways of America- before moving to Paris, France where he currently lives.

  Inspired by Ginsberg, Corso and Yeats (his concept of ‘negative capability’), Amitin has forged a style fusing beat-noir-surrealism and vaudeville. His poems have been published and in Poetry Pacific, California Quarterly, AbstractMagazineTV, Black Magnolias, RedRiverReview, Cajun Mutt Press, Bewildering Stories, Broken VHS, and others.

 A current collaboration with Parisian photographer Julie Peiffer has given rise to the evocative “Riverlights” project, and the chapbook Riverlights.